What Did I Break on My Laptop??

[HairyChickens]

Today I decided to clean the dust in my laptop when I accidentally broke the cable connector off what I think is the Wifi/Bluetooth card. Not sure how I did it but think I might have bumped it with the back cover. If you look at the picture I'm pretty sure I ripped it clean off the solder point. However, upon turning on my laptop both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth worked. So I'm just wondering what exactly I broke and is it worth getting it repaired.

Was really worried that micro soldering work was needed.

 

So lucky it still works.

 

Thanks

[Jakey05]

5 minutes ago, HairyChickens said:

Today I decided to clean the dust in my laptop when I accidentally broke the cable connector off what I think is the Wifi/Bluetooth card. Not sure how I did it but think I might have bumped it with the back cover. If you look at the picture I'm pretty sure I ripped it clean off the solder point. However, upon turning on my laptop both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth worked. So I'm just wondering what exactly I broke and is it worth getting it repaired.

Was really worried that micro soldering work was needed.

 

So lucky it still works.

 

Thanks

I believe that's the WiFi card, if its touching the solder at any point it will still complete the circuit and work however it goes without saying its dangerous and best replaced/repaired, some may have a better solution or more knowledge than me though!!!

 

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Edited July 29, 2021 by Jakey05

[SPARTAN VI]

That looks like the WiFi device, you snapped one of the antenna connections. 

[Levent]

Oof, you broke the wireless and bluetooth antenna connector. From what I can see pads are still there so repair might be possible. Although it is possible for it to work with single antenna, if card is specifically designed to operate with dual antennas:

• You will drop packets, resulting in latency or straight up connection issues.
• You might experience issues when you are saturating the network with both download and upload operatings or while using bluetooth.
• If that card supports 5ghz, you will have issues with connectivity to those networks.
• Or simply, you might experience all of the above.

[Kid.Lazer]

Yep, that's an antenna connector. The good news is that the solder points are pretty big so blobbing some solder on there to hold them together is fairly trivial.